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Edward Harris, born in Philadelphia in 1797, was a minister in the Presbyterian Church for 48 years, as of the date of his memoir in 1872. Harris moved with his family from Philadelphia to Maine in 1808. In 1815, he returned to Philadelphia before moving to Kentucky in 1817 where he began his training as a minister. Returning again to Philadelphia in 1819, and on to Princeton, New Jersey, he was licensed to preach in 1822. He would be ordained in 1830. Largely an itinerant minister spending fairly short periods with any one congregation, Harris's career took him to Long Island, several New England states (including Maine and Connecticut), Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio. He even preached and worked in North Carolina in the late 1850s despite his abhorrence of slavery. Harris preached 3,876 sermons, travelled 124,884 miles, and received $6,746.84 (by his own calculations) for his services. (Source: Harris's memoir)

From the guide to the Reverend Edward Harris memoir, 1872, (Brooklyn Historical Society)

Epithet: Master of Thame School, county Oxfordshire

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Wilton, Wiltshire
Thame, Oxfordshire
Milton, Cambridgeshire
Enfield, Middlesex
Streatley, Berkshire
Digswell, Hertfordshire
Ipswich, Suffolk
Ardeley, Hertfordshire
Ickenham, Middlesex
Albury, Hertfordshire
Woodford, Wiltshire
Holton, Oxfordshire
Chisledon, Wiltshire
Tooting, Surrey
Egham, Surrey
Bethersclen, Kent
Eddystone Lighthouse, Devon
Goodnestone, Kent
Hastings, Sussex
Thorpe, Surrey
West Drayton, Middlesex
Warfield, Berkshire
Harrow, Middlesex
Framfield, Sussex
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Watlington, Oxfordshire
Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
Dublin, Ireland
Little Bradley, Suffolk
Barnstaple, Devon
Tisbury, Wiltshire
Chichester, Sussex
Biddenden, Kent
Westerham, Kent
Merstham, Surrey
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Bisham, Berkshire
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